I was (kind of) challenged by someone who claimed that taxes are a necessary evil and at the same time a fairer way of paying for some stuff e.g. ambulances... I think that one of the problems that those people have is that they praise the idea of the so called greater good. The idea that society can choose to ‘use’/abuse/torture certain individuals who have committed no offence against anyone because doing so will ‘benefit many people and only cost a couple’. Well so now we know that we live in a age of quantity and not a one of quality. Sad it is. But it is even more sad that those same arguments would have been used by all sort of socialist derived regimes like natzis (sacrificing certain individuals, of Jewish descent, disabled etc.) or commies (who justified sacrificing the rich..., well for the government I guess, since the so called poor did not seem to benefit so much). If we do not stop this, we might find ourselves living in a world where it will legal to make experiments on individuals against their will - ‘for the greater good’; strip rich people (who I have no idea why people hate so much) of all their possessions - ‘for the greater good’; kill your elderly relatives - ‘for the greater good’.
Without freedom, there will be no justice...
I would like to point out that in today's world, especially in Western countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, it is already legal to perform experiments on individuals against their will or impair some of their bodily functions. I have written extensively about people in the UK and Poland being, for example, focibly sterilized or banned by court order from engaging in sexual activities.
ReplyDeleteTo this I can add that patients of "mental hospitals" are actually guinea pigs for the government-run doctor/psychiatrist/insurance lobby, especially in the USA. These people are pumped full of dangerous drugs against their will (most psychotropic drugs are more potent than cocaine). Also, children with so-called ADHD (a made-up "disease") suffer from medical abuse by being drugged daily at home and in school.
This is not even to mention the fact that the US government has already admitted to experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs on military personel without their knowledge as far back as the Korean War (1950s and 1960s).
You are sadly right, but it is still a reasonably low profile thing in the news and most people still did not accept this as the norm. There are examples all over the place if you look for them e.g. http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/therapist-brainwashed-woman-into-believing-she-was-in-satanic-cult/
ReplyDeleteBut most people take it as conspiracy theory, even though MK-ULTRA of which you mentioned is a well documented fact.